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Yahoo!’s Domain Name Auction

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listed more than 100 domain names for auction at Sedo. They made the announcement on their Tumblr blog yesterday. was in the domain name business. Now is the time you want to put the domain name of your choice on your watch list. Starting today at noon EST, Yahoo! I didn’t know Yahoo!

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4 Blogging Strategies That Really Work

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When it comes to blogging, there is no one-size-fits-all strategy. With that in mind, here are 4 viable blog strategies that work. SEO Blogging – With SEO blogging, the idea is to produce content that gains search engine traction. This type of blogging has a bad name in some circles.

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5 Online Marketing Terms You Should Know

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That said, here are five Internet marketing terms every small business owner should know: Domain Name – I still talk to people who don’t have a clue about what a domain name is. If you look in your Web browser, at the top of the browser where the website address is, that’s the domain name.

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The TLD Race Has Begun

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It seems that ICANNs blog and application for TLDs is a bit clearer on this topic than the original source of my information. Specifically, I’d like to quote the ICANN blog: In addition to familiar TLDs such as.com,org, and.net, Internet users could potentially see new domain name extensions made of almost any word, in any language.

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Are Web-Based Free Hosts Good For Business?

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Some of these web-based hosts provide services like analytics, a blog platform, forum add-ons, and their sites even show up in the search engine rankings so the SEO is good. It costs less than $20 per year for a domain name and less than $15 per month for good hosting. decided to shut the site down – for good.

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Blogger Integrates With Google+

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Well, that integration is happening right now for Blogger, the Google blogging platform. I’ve kept it no secret that I’m a fan of WordPress on your own domain name, but there are still people who would rather use Blogger as a free blogging platform. Blogger has done a lot to help new businesses go online.

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Stop The Spam, Please!

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One particular type of spam that I find particularly egregious is blog comment spam because I see so much of it. Here are five specific ways I can tell a blog comment is spam and why I won’t approve it. Your comment is written by your company name or a keyword phrase. Address something that I wrote about in my blog post.